Organs For Sale

Does the name Wang Wenyi ring a bell?

Refresh your memory here and here and here.

WorldNetDaily reports that Wang Wenyi was right.

Following years of denial, China has acknowledged that foreigners who can pay more than native Chinese have been given preference for organ transplants and that "donors" for the operation have often been executed prisoners.

WND reported in 2004 charges by the banned Falun Gong group – backed up by Chinese doctors and human rights experts – that the communist government was torturing prisoners, executing them and trafficking in their body parts.

This week, at a summit for transplant doctors held in Guangzhou, the once-denied practice was confirmed by government officials.

"Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," said Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu, according to English-language China Daily newspaper. "The current organ donation shortfall can't meet demand."

A ministry spokesman also said that "wealthier people, including foreign patients" were able to move to the top of waiting lists ahead of others waiting for organs.

...The announcement at the Guangzhou summit followed the adoption of new rules in July for transplants. Under these regulations, foreigners would only be eligible for transplants per internationally recognized standards. The 1 million Chinese already on waiting lists would be given priority, and organ donations, even from prisoners, would be with the donor's consent.

The rules also forbid "organ trading" – paying live donors for organs that are removed and then transported outside China for transplant.

Since the law prior to the new rules already said donations were supposed to be with consent, there is some question about the new regulations' effectiveness and whether they will be ignored as well. They only apply to ministry of health hospitals, the London Telegraph reported, and most transplant operations on foreigners are done at military hospitals run by the People's Liberation Army.

...Mabel Wu, 69, of Northridge, Calif., paid $40,000 for her new kidney in July. The family was told only that the donor was a 30-year-old male.

"I am very happy with this transplant," Wu told the Times. "I got a good kidney."

It's true.

The Communist Chinese HAVE been harvesting human organs and selling them at bargain prices.

Chinese prisoners, including political prisoners, are executed and their organs are used in transplants.

The Chinese don't deny this anymore. They admit to the practice.

Where's the outcry from so-called human rights organizations?

Where's the international outrage over this barbarism?

I guess the world is too busy condemning Israel for every move it makes to focus on the Chinese executions of thousands and the extraction of their organs for transplants.

And the 2008 Olympics will be held in Beijing.

The Chinese will welcome the world.

I wonder how many visitors will go home with a new organ.

Where do the organs come from?

Don't ask. Don't tell. Be happy.